Capacity Planner
Location: US, , Plano
Employment type: Contract
Required experience: Not Applicable
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Retail
Function: Information Technology

Company profile:
Cigniti Inc. is a 15 year old Irving, TX based professional services and staffing company which helped companies like Trimac Transportation Services, The Freeman Company, Crowley Maritime Corporation, SUBWAY , Teletech Holdings, Heartland Payment Systems, Merrill Lynch, MoneyGram, Stroz Friedberg, HighRadius Corporation, Hertz, Lego, Exeter Finance, NQ Mobile, SecondStreet Media, IQ Interactive, Intuit, Kabam, Vungle, Winshuttle, Shazam Entertainment, Opera Software ASA, GXS India Technology Center, Commerce to identify the right talent for their ongoing and upcoming projects in multiple locations across the USA. The Cigniti Advantage: With a full time staff of over 500 certified consultants across the USA, Cigniti can be your go-to partner for all your staffing needsDedicated Talent Acquisition team(s) with over a decade and a half of experience and expertise in staffing IT/QA teams15% bench to meet those dynamic business and project demandsOnsite consultants working at client locations have access to a specialized R&amp;D team and senior leadership at no extra cost to our clientsDedicated account management that will take ownership of resource onboarding processes to ensure rapid induction of consultants to your projects Can we schedule a few minutes to talk about your recruitment strategy and plans?  We would like to explore opportunities to work in partnership with your team. We look forward to hearing from you.

Job description:
• Capturing business demand and translate that demand into system models to determine and plan resource needs for successful IT delivery that meets capacity and performance needs.  • Creating and publishing statistical models to trend and forecast resource requirements, measuring success against the accuracy of models.  • Developing and executing strategies to obtain business metrics, growth requirements and SLA requirements related to capacity and performance for use by capacity management functions to trend and forecast growth of existing infrastructure.  • Working with application and engineering teams to identify and recommend tuning initiatives and benchmark application performance/capacity prior to deployment.  • Determining and documenting application profiles, baselines and appropriate peak demand periods.  • Participating in ad-hoc capacity and performance analysis or diagnostics.

Requirements:
• Deep distributed systems capacity planning and usage forecasting experience regarding: Oracle ATG, Oracle E-Business, Oracle Database, Oracle Weblogic, Tibco EMS and BusinessWorks, Hadoop-based data platforms (Cloudera, Hortonworks, etc.), VMware, HyperV, PowerVM, WAN networks, Cloud IaaS resources and SaaS services. • Expert knowledge of statistical analysis, capacity/performance modeling, testing and problem solving methodologies. Demonstrated capability modeling application system capacity using statistical, analytical and simulation models. • Expert level understanding of server and application performance metrics and performance analysis methodology. Able to instrument application performance monitoring for modern web-delivered applications. • Strong communication skills (oral and written); Able to communicate effectively across peer groups, customers and all levels of corporate management; Able to effectively communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience; Able to quickly produce reports, charts and presentations using Microsoft Office software and deliver these to an executive audience. • Expert level understanding of server and application performance metrics and performance analysis methodology. Able to instrument application performance monitoring for modern web-delivered applications. 

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